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I very much believe this to be the case. And this seems to be the situation EON is in most of the time now.
The question is will Fukunaga be the new Lee Tamahori or more of a Marc Forster?
My hope and suspicion is he will be more the latter.
He's also a writer, and he's personally spent time on the script which gives me a lot of hope the writing on this film is going to be above the usual low standard we've come to accept since 1989.
He's talented (as Tamahori seemed to be) but I think has more respect for the series. Anyway, (brothergate to one side) I don't see Craig era Bond straying much further into DAD territory than it has already.
So yes I agree he was probably the guy standing around with his hands in his pockets the day they sacked Boyle, but I don't see history repeating and us going back to the doldrums of the 1990s.
Fukunaga is more like Forster IMO. An artsy talented director. But he's going to get more time and won't be dealing with extensive rewrites throughout the production. He is also respectful and talented enough to keep the essence of Bond but put a fresh spin on it. He can also clearly direct suspenseful drama and gripping action, which frankly puts him ahead of pretty much every director the series has employed since John Glen.
A lot will rest on the story/plot IMO. Is it another serving of Purvis and Wade unleavened bread, or will we finally get a genuinely gripping and weird Flemingesque story?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_G._Wilson
I'm picturing some locked broom cupboard at EON HQ with huge paper files going back to the late 80s and large amounts of dust.
Forster's one thriller (Stay) misfired as well.
Fukunaga is kinda halfway between Mendes and Forster I guess.
Agreed. Those action scenes were mod edit and Bond is MORE than capable of better sequences. It's funny to me that the barely can be seen action sequences in QoS, in fact all of QoS' action sequences are better than every so called action sequence in SP. In any case, I trust CJF to come correct.
Fukunaga looks like a very different filmmaker. Mendes is a theatre animal who never wrote a screenplay. Forster is more of a neutral director with basically no poetic. Fukunaga’s attitude to write puts him in a different position and he already proved not to be a mere yes-man.
Greater respect than Tamahori was what I wrote but others may have meant something else
I agree. Maibaum was hands down the best writer the series ever had.
Definitely. He’s ideas and inputs are at the core of both SF and SP. They gave him a lot of creative freedom, that’s pretty clear. What I’m saying is that he’s just a different kind of filmmaker than Cary. So I don’t see Fukunaga like an in between Mendes and Forster. Having said that Fukunaga is a very versatile filmmaker and if you look at his body of work the common theme has always been a peculiar attention to the psychological aspects of the characters. He also has a brand new (for the saga) background as a director, since he started in the American indie world.
Agreed on Fukunaga, and the prospect of an entirely new aesthetic again is really something that excites me. I do hope we're back in Whitehall though.
He hasn't lost anything.
Nobody can say the idea of paragliding through a tsunami isn't creative or "thinking outside the box". I don't think I've ever seen anything like it before or since. It doesn't make the scene any less cringe inducing, naff and awfully executed. But it certainly is creative.
The Rome sequence on the other hand is a car chase, which is a set-up we've seen many times, and an extremely lamely put together one at that.
So @talos7 is not wrong at all.
Sorry wasn't refering to you directly.
Indeed, but why would anyone assume that Fukunaga has a deeper respect than Boyle or Mendes who both are British. It's one thing to say being American isn't a disadvantage, it's another thing to say that being American is an advantage. Why is it assumed he is more in tune with how Bond should be than either of the other recent (British) choices?
I don't recall seeing anybody saying this at all. The closest thing to this was @Getafix saying that he could direct suspenseful action better than anyone since Glen.
Not trying to defend that utter nonsensical car chase but I don't think I have seen any car chase racing through a wall near a river which I thought was quite creative and preformed real as well without CGI even though it was dumb.
I cam't argue with that, @Resurrection :)
Hmmm, so if I lack an “inability” to express myself coherently and with style then you’re saying that I do have both qualities; why thank you.
My final word is that you use the techniques of a carnival worker in that no matter how well the player does they don’t win the prize. Me aside I’ve see numerous members make excellent arguments; you will select a single word, or phrase, twist and contort it and tell that person that they are wrong and haven’t proven their point. It’s no more than a debate version of a carnival con.
Any way , thanks for the compliment. I’m moving on .
The core philosophy of Spectre's action scenes are what make them dull. Mendes or whoever was more focused on making it possible, rather than making it exciting. To them, making it possible was enough.
Daniel Craig has said that he would like to work with you again after 2015’s Spectre. And casting has begun for the next Bond movie set for next year ...
[Laughs.] It was great to work with Daniel. He is not just a great actor, but also very giving. When [director] Sam Mendes cast me I couldn’t believe how people were talking about “the older women”, how I was older than James Bond. This created something crazy but it was a good experience. It was also interesting to show that even if a women is not young anymore, she still has femininity and sensuality.
You’re on to something, here, @FourDot. Except for the PTS and Q’s run in with a bunch of tourists, there is an odd absence of people. You call it a vacuum; I think it feels like isolation. If you have seen A Star Is Born with Gaga and Cooper, you’ll notice it in that film as well, to creepy and beneficial results. I need some coffee to ponder the ramifications if this LOL.
Exactly, everything need not be an argument or debate.
OK, that I laughed out loud at. Well done :)
I doubt that the workshop has any sort of input on Bond. They’re probably how “Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool” and “The Rhythm Section” came to be.